Musk plans ‘self-growing’ Moon city

The SpaceX CEO has said a lunar settlement could be built within a decade, as the global powers race for Earth’s only natural satellite

US tech billionaire Elon Musk has announced plans to build a “self-growing city” on the Moon, placing the project ahead of his long-stated ambitions to reach Mars.

In recent years, SpaceX has focused on developing spacecraft capable of reaching the Red Planet, with Musk previously saying that the...